Showing posts with label herbal. Show all posts
Showing posts with label herbal. Show all posts
28 February 2012
24 January 2012
Some old and new friends around the garden
When we moved into our little home, our tenants were nice enough to leave some amazing herbs and veggies growing in the beds they built. It was such an awesome gift. Now, once I've figured out what most of everything is, we have leeks, chives, rainbow and regular silverbeet, (I think) beetroot, spinach, parsley, mint, thyme, rosemary, fennel, pineapple sage and probably a few things I haven't found yet.
I had to give the mint and the thyme a massive cut back the other day, but out of came a massive amount of dried thyme, which should keep and I can make some tea out of. Or maybe some shaving cream for Jacob (if he ever decided to shave!)
Since Monday was a public holiday here for some, I headed to Leacroft Nurseries with some of the family and was so impressed! I hadn't been there before, but will be going back this week! They have so many native plants and it's all fairly priced! Yep. New favourite place.
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Lemongrass (new), fennel with pineapple sage (old) |
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Feijoa & the $5 tomato plant (both new) |
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Lavender (new) and one of our leeks (old) |
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Yep. Love gardening. And love my green gumboots. |
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22 January 2012
Dirt and worms
Yesterday, we cleaned out from behind Jacob's little shed. Beyond all the Wandering Willie, the random bits of rotten timber, a barn door, and a giant iron scrolled window bar... We found worms. And lots of them!
There is actually concrete behind that little shed, underneath about 4 inches of solid dirt filled with any amazing amount of healthy worms! In our fantastic recycling fashion, we moved the dirt into our newly developed garden beds around the deck. Score! And we can now have the back of our shed again!
Here are some photos of the rest of our adventures this week!
A lovely morning walk with the Dog Tales - Awoohooo! |
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Gardening and some recipes. |
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Still Granny Squaring away and some new doodles. |
Coolness today as we are going to be heading over to the Botanical Garden for a bit! I'm super excited! I haven't been there since my first ever trip to Welly!
Have a good rest of your weekend!!
xx
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